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From: dmn@stiatl.UUCP (Michael Nowacki)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: growing software - darwinian model
Keywords: evolution artificial life
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Date: 2 Mar 90 15:25:53 GMT
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In <1990Mar1.212630.20380@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> kurt@happy.csg.uiuc.edu writes:
>In  <23107@edsews.EDS.COM> clairday@edsews.EDS.COM (matt clairday) writes:
>>concerning an AI project at UCLA?
>> "After creating 200 generations of ants,
>>Mr. Jefferson had a strain of super ants who follow the trail with ease."
>
>
>The problem with this work is that the ants only learned how to solve the
>traversal of a specific path.

i recall reading about experiments that indicated that learned behavior could
be inherited (in rats, anyway) years ago.
so maybe we inherit our parent's habits.
no shit.
certainly their BAD habits are almost inevitably ours. the UCLA experiment could
be said to indicate that one of our problems is that we inherit habits, and this
is an obstacle to manifesting intelligence.
or maybe its just habits in general.
as roz chast would say, "who knows?"

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